Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-01-28
A SUGAR SUBSTITUTE.
Something About It's Manufacture mn
Remarkable Sweetness.

Something About It's Manufacture and
Remarkable Sweetness.
The scientific world is just now in
terested in recent discovery by which
coal-tar is made into sugar, The enter
prise originated in Germany, but is at
tracing general attention in this coun-
try. DIR. I. G. Minor, who keeps posted
on every thing, was called upon to give
some facts on coal-tar sugar.
"The new substitute for sugar." re-
marked Dr. Minor ais called saccharine,
and is really product of coal-tar. twill
add an additional value to the refuse of
gas-works. Its discoverer was Fohl-
berg, who formerly lived in the East,
but resides at the present time, think,
in Hamburg"
HAS the new substance been intro
duced to commercep"
"Not to any large extent, owing to
its cost, for it is worth about twelve
dollars per pound. Yet one pound of
saccharine will sweeten ten thousand
pounds of water"
"How is 1t prepared for the sugar
marketpn
1.-The preparation used in Europe is
an admiXture of glucose and dextrin.
One pound of saccharine will convert
two thousand pounds of glucose into the
very best grade of ordinary table sugar;
that is, it will resemble table sugar as
regards sweetness without the nutritious
qualities of the real article"
"You don't mean to say that there is
no nutrition in saccharine. doctorPn
Eyes; it has little or no nutritious
property, and is merely an adulterant.
"Is it likely that it will be ever used
on large scale as an adulterant in the
United States?"
"Of course" replied DIR. Minor,
''when the process of making the
saccharine is cheapened. l would be
willing to predict that every large gas
works in the country will be selling
saccharine as refuse principle in the
next twenty years, and that there will
be enough profit in the business to make
illuminating gas for nothing; in other
words, the present gas-works will be a
saccharine manufacturing establish
ment, while the refuse will be illumin-
ating gas. Analine colors and ammonia
salts will be made under the same roof
as the coal-tar from which the saccha-
rine is devolved."
What is the process of making sac
charine, doctorP"
"That question can be answered bet
ter by chemist" said Dr. Minor. at
is usual, however, to take what is called
the .oluene in coal-tar and treat this
substance with phosphorous-penta-
chloride; it is the cost of this other
article that renders the manufacture of
saccharine so expensive. Yet, even as
expensive as it is, quality of sugar
can now be manufactured even cheaper
than New Orleans cane sugar"
"What will be the result of this new
adulterant?"
"Itwill cheaper the cost of sweetening
materials in groceries and candies and
will enhance the value of real cane
sugar, just as the price of pure butter
has been increased by oleomargarine.
Pure butter, pure sugar and pure milk
will always cost large price, and only
be within reach of the wealthy. Why,
even modern Chicago lard is now said
to be largely made from cotton-seed oil.
This is the age of adulteration, and
about the only pure articles left to the
mass of humanity are plain bread and
water"
"How about coffee and tea, doctor?"
"Coffee in the berry unbrowned and
unground can not be initiated, but
three-fourths of the ground coffees on
the market are adulterated. As for tea,
Ceylon is now the great producing
country for cheap teas, which are
palmed off in Europe for fine China
goods. Ceylon teas lack much of the
theme or active principle of tea that
is found in the genuine Hong Kong
chops. y Cincinnati Enquirer.